Letters, Aug. 22, 1932

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Saturday on the Coast

Sirs:

I assume that no matter what day of the week you chose to mail TIME, there will be kicks. In my case there is the following kick: TIME may be bought on Saturday morning on any Los Angeles (or Hollywood) newsstand, yet my subscription copy never arrives until Monday.

Some of your subscription solicitation literature made a point of TIME's availability for weekend reading, I believe. By subscribing I have lost that very feature. Can anything be done about it? I use, as you will note, a postbox, to which TIME might be sent if that would ensure Saturday delivery, though I prefer delivery to my home otherwise.

K. V. R. LANSINGH

Hollywood, Calif.

Sirs:

My move to Los Angeles two years ago has proved entirely satisfactory but for one thing. Whereas formerly (in Philadelphia) I read TIME over the weekend, I now have to wait until Monday, sometimes Tuesday, to get my hands on it. Local friends who are TIME readers seem to be hardened to this treatment, thankful for TIME any time. I am not. In fact I'm mad. Can't you fellows charter a plane to get your copies out here for weekend consumption? How about it?

GEO. ROBEY

Los Angeles, Calif.

TIME, never happy about its inability to reach Pacific Coast subscribers before the weekend, has finally solved this problem. Starting with the issue of Sept. 12. TIME will be delivered to Subscriber Robey and all Pacific Coast subscribers by Saturday. Subscribers will appreciate that getting copies to individual mail addresses takes more time than delivering bundles of magazines direct to newsstands. New printing speed developed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., TIME's printers, and the split-second co-operation of seven potent railroad systems and the U. S. Post Office, will now combine to make weekend reading of TIME possible for subscribers from coast to coast.—ED. Rabbit & Lion

Sirs: In your magazine of July 11 under the title "Heroes" you say: "Commander Waters suddenly took an early page out of Benito Mussolini's book and, in the spirit of Il Duce's 1922 march on Rome, proclaimed himself the veterans' dictator." May I suggest that Commander Waters can be compared to Mussolini as a rabbit can be compared to a lion? When Mussolini decided the march on Rome, before he reached the capital, H. M. the King of Italy wired him, asking to form a new Cabinet. Mussolini's followers, the "Black Shirts," were all wellarmed, organized and had "guts." . . . GEORGE GAZZERA

New York City

Sterilizing in California

Sirs:

Our confidence in the fairness and frankness of TIME impels us to believe that your comments on the organization and work of the Human Betterment Foundation of Pasadena, Calif., in your July 4 issue, p. 28, were published under a misunderstanding of the real facts.

In 20 years, California sterilized 8% only of the insane and feebleminded committed to her asylums, by an operation that did not unsex any patient.